HOME-START TEESSIDE

Registered charity 1108495 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Home - Start offers support, friendship and practical help to parents with young children, in local communities. Volunteers, who are usually parents themselves are recruited and trained to visit families at home who have at least one child under 5, to offer them informal, friendly and confidential support.

Objects

3.1 TO SAFEGUARD, PROTECT AND PRESERVE THE GOOD HEALTH, BOTH MENTAL AND PHYSICAL OF CHILDREN AND PARENTS OF CHILDREN;3.2 TO PREVENT CRUELTY TO OR MALTREATMENT OF CHILDREN;3.3 TO RELIEVE SICKNESS, POVERTY AND NEED AMONGST CHILDREN AND PARENTS OF CHILDREN;3.4 TO PROMOTE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN BETTER STANDARDS OF CHILD CARE WITHIN THE AREA OF TEESSIDE AND ITS ENVIRONS.

Area of benefit: TEESSIDE AND ITS ENVIRONS.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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Registered contact address: Middlesbrough, North East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £12,927 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in a decrease in total net assets from £88,813 to £75,886. Per the trustees' report, the investment policy is to build up reserves, and the independent examiner confirmed no matters gave cause to believe the accounts were not prepared in accordance with applicable standards. The trustees confirmed there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

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Trustees · trustee networks

• Graham Yorkchair
• Claire Johnston
• Kenneth Watson
• Matthew Lamb
• Michael Bartley
• Nicola Knight · trustee of 1 other charity
• Simon Hislop

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Middlesbrough · Redcar And Cleveland · Stockton-on-tees

Income and spending

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• HOME-START CAMBRIDGESHIRE income £242k
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• HOME-START GUILDFORD income £164k

Side by side with its peers

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